Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-11-26

regular Train; u having Euli:r'S nSn
without him or any Of his men; and not
least, the manner in which we had
swooped down upon them like some beast
OF prey, coming without any signal man
ahead at a time when under railroad rules
they were entitled to the road-all this,
which only some most urgent occasion or
public calamity could excuse, called for
explanation. Andrews calmly told his
story: and the urgent need of ammunition
was felt to justify everything; and all the
questions were asked and answered that
are Common among railroad men on meet
ing. Yet Andrews would have talked
little and would have made q very short
stop, had it not been for the manner in
which the passenger train bound in his
own. We had q good right to be uneasy
here, for we had not cut the wires between
this station and Adairsville because we
had not dared, in the terrible urgency Of
reaching Calhoun, to delay even for this
purpose. A question might come on the
wires at any moment which Andrews,
with all his adroitness, would not find it
Instructions on the track. This latter
omission prepared the way for another
race against time, only less swift and fear
full than our own.
Thus we were again delayed. Andrews
tried gentle and indirect means to per-
suade the conductor of the passenger train
that it was perfectly safe for him to run
down and get to Adairsville before Full
ler's passenger train. But he was not
easily persuaded. The bare escape from
collision with our train had shaken his
nerves too much for him to wish at once
to repeat the experience. Neither did lie
seem at all in a hurry to move his train
ahead n let us out on the main track;
but as his train was the only obstacle, it
would not have been long, had he contin.
ued obstinate, until the reserve force of
party would have been brought into
requisition. It may be said here that An
drews was perfectly sincere in telling him
that there would be abundant time for
him TO reach Adairsville before Fuller
with his train would be along. We did
not think that Fuller would be along
that day, and with his own train he was
not. But as matters We're, If the Calhoun
man had allowed himself to be persuaded
to start southwark, q fearful collision
would have ended all possibilities of pur.
suit, and left lis free to burn bridges at
u leisure. Here was another of the mar.
row escapes made by the enemy. To un.
derstand this 1t is necessary to recur tc
Fuller and Murphy, who were within two
or three minutes of Kingston when we
left that place.
They were terribly disappointed When
they found themselves stopped quite &
long distance below Kingston by three
heavy freight trains, and learned in 4
brief conversation with the engineer Of
the nearest, and the persons who had rur
down that way On hearing their whistle,
that their game had flown. They hearG
with wonder how long the commander OF
the captured train had been held there
and how he had succeeded in concealins
his real character. The formidable nature
of the enemy ahead was now clearly re-
vealed, but it looked for a moment t.
Fuller as if all his labor had been fol
nothing, and that he would be able I,
continue the pursuit only after a ruinou:
delay. To back all these trains up tn,
heavy grade so that he could get Oh tn,
side track, and then down again to get of
at the upper end, would require nj
amount of ~''seesawing'' that would Civ,
the captors of his train a hopeless start.
Here arose a difference of opinion be
tween Fuller and Murphy, who up to thi
time had worked together in perfec
accord. Murphy ran ahead and cut loos,
the New York, the new and goot
engine Of one of the frcights, attaching i
to the car which had brought their tool!
from Etowah. lie then called to FulleI
to move the Rome engine back out of tn
way that he might come round on tn
"Y." But Fuller had different plans.
The Rome engine and train had stoot
on its own track all this time waiting TO